Word: burgeons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
This debt retirement may have barely started. It may burgeon if the tax relief proposed in the 1942 Revenue Act becomes law (TIME, Sept. 7). All railroads can then purchase their own bonds at discounts without paying taxes on the paper profits. (This privilege now belongs only to those in financial difficulties.) If the still-solvent roads use most of their available funds for bond retirement they might retire $1 billion of their $7 billion debt next year. The not-so-solvent railroads are scaling down their debts in court...
...family of thoughtful New Englanders share their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages burgeon with blueberries, cranberries, marsh grass, salt spray and ospreys...
...Ralph Norton who decided that what West Palm Beach needed was an art museum. He first visited the town in 1898, when it sported only two resort hotels. Whenever his job permitted, he came again, watched the town burgeon. In 1935 he bought a home there. When at last he and his wife decided that their picture collection had outgrown their Chicago house, he knew exactly what to do about it. Late last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road...
...summarizing the season, Captain Ives expressed his disappointment that the team's potential material did not burgeon into a spectacular outfit...